Chapter 16: The Past of Ertos

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After the three Casio returned to the accommodation arranged for them, they were not idle and began to discuss.

The first thing to be solved is naturally about the purpose of Jonathan and the two coming over this time.

The three of them sat at the small table, and Casio was not polite to the two of them, and asked directly, "Say, Heron, they let you come here with me this time, what special explanation do they have?" ”

After all, Casio cares about everyone's feelings, so he doesn't say what the purpose is.

But having said that, I believe Jonathan should also understand it very well.

Jonathan and Ariel glanced at each other, Ariel lowered her head directly, and in the end, only Jonathan answered Casio's question, "Ahem, seriously, we don't know, my teacher just asked us to come with you, it will definitely come in handy." ”

"Really?" Casio was deeply skeptical of this answer.

Jonathan and the others nodded sincerely, as if we really weren't lying, so Casio didn't know what to say for a while.

Next, no matter what Casio said, the two of them didn't know anything anyway, and it was the heron that asked them to come that made Casio very helpless, and finally gave up the idea of wanting to get information from their mouths.

The three of them sat still for a while, but fortunately, Ertos soon returned, alleviating the embarrassment between the three of them.

As soon as Ertos returned, he asked Casio directly about the reason.

There was nothing to hide, so Casio told Ertos directly how the three of them had talked to Farlanyi and them in the main hall some time ago.

Unexpectedly, after listening to this, Ertos fell silent directly, and only after a while did he say with a complicated face, "As a member of the Ancient Forest Council, I shouldn't actually say this, but in a certain aspect, I have to remind you. ”

Casio raised his eyebrows, and when he looked for him, he found that Ertos seemed to be a little unspeakable, and now the other party said this, which obviously proved that there was no problem with his thoughts.

The crowd did not speak, but waited for Ertos to continue.

This time, Ertos was silent for a long time before he slowly spoke to explain his purpose for saying this.

After listening to Ertos' story, Casio and the others fell silent, feeling embarrassed in their hearts.

This is also the first time that Casio has learned about his past from Ertos himself.

Ertos was born in the Ancient Forest Council of the Forest and was taught to be loyal to the entire race from an early age, so when he became an adult, he directly joined the forest clan and fought for the honor and faith he had been a child with.

At that time, they had been educated in his mind, and they were in the position they were in to resist the expansion of the underground race.

If they can't hold on, they will allow the Underground Race to drive straight into the heart of the Ghorea, bringing devastating disaster to the other races.

At that time, Ertos was also convinced of this and was willing to sacrifice his life for the ideals and beliefs in his heart.

Therefore, when facing the underground race, he never showed mercy to his subordinates, and carried out the orders issued from above loyally and ruthlessly.

This state of affairs did not change dramatically until he went deep into the ground to carry out an encirclement mission.

At that time, their mission was to exterminate an underground tribe.

At first, Ertos didn't think there was anything suspicious about this mission, but when he had to swing the butcher's knife at the children and women of the underground race according to the orders from above, he began to wonder if the purpose of what he was doing was for the justice of his heart.

Originally, this kind of thing existed in the minds of almost all forest soldiers who participated in the mission, and if it hadn't happened to the rest of the story, Ertos might still be on a mission in the Ancient Forest Council.

Until one day, he met an underground race, an underground race that understood their language and was able to communicate with them.

In the beginning, there was no language communication between the underground races and the forest species, because neither side understood the other's language, and every time they met, there was only killing!

But when he met this underground race that could communicate, Ertos learned another truth from the other party that was completely different from what he had learned since he was a child through a series of coincidences.

That is, the underground race has not taken the initiative to attack the ground, and everything is a war provoked by the Ancient Forest Council for the rich resources underground.

The war between the Underground Races and their Council of the Ancient Forest had been going on for nearly a thousand years, and Ertos naturally didn't believe it at first.

But with the constant communication with the other party and the confirmation of some facts, everything that Ertos has always insisted on in his heart is being destroyed and collapsed.

Although Ertos still killed the underworld race in the end, the seeds of doubt had been planted in his heart, and they had taken root.

He began to learn to observe and think during the mission, and he found more and more problems, which made his faith begin to waver.

As various things happened, in the end, the faith in Ertos's heart began to split, leaving him under great mental pressure all the time, which indirectly led to his mental instability.

Until the execution of a mission, although Eltos did not say it explicitly, Casio knew that it was precisely because of this mission that Ertos, who was already on the verge of mental collapse, completely formed a dual personality.

It was also during that mission that another personality of Ertos appeared for the first time, and with a full mood of killing and destruction, he began to slaughter all the beings around him.

As a result, Ertos was expelled from the Council of the Ancient Forest, and set foot on human territory until he met Casio in Tirino.

"They don't deserve help, everything they do, it's a lie!" is Eltos' last summary of the Council of the Ancient Forest.

However, Casio more or less understood the thoughts of the elders of the Ancient Forest Council, after all, if he wanted to maintain such a large race, he would not find a way to obtain resources, and sooner or later he would only have to perish.

He wasn't even sure if he would make the same decision as these elders in the future for the development of Greenwater Town.

He just hopes that when he faces such a choice, he will not lose his heart!

"Things can't be generalized, the Knight of the Light is a major threat not only to the Council of the Ancient Forest, but also to all the races of the entire Gurea. ”

Cassio knew the horrors of the Aphotic Knight by anyone present, so he agreed to come down for the sake of Greenwater.

Ertos shook his head and didn't say much, he seemed a little disheartened now, and he didn't want to point too much fingers at the affairs of the Ancient Forest Council.